The Trump Archive collects TV news shows containing debates, speeches, rallies, and other broadcasts related to President-elect Donald Trump. See or download fact checks of Trump's statements by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.

This evolving non-commercial, searchable collection is designed to preserve the historical record for posterity. Here is a how-to on using the Trump Archive. he project is a work in progress, with improvements planned for expanding the collection and making searching more efficient.

At launch–blog post here–in January 2017, it is largely hand-curated, with Internet Archive researchers searching out relevant clips, editing them, and placing them in the Trump Archive. To begin, the Internet Archive used video statements fact checked by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker to seed the archive with relevant material in which there is a strong public interest. Researchers worked to include one copy of each Trump statement, but some duplicates may remain.

We hope to collaborate with researchers to apply machine intelligence to expand this collection and build archives about other public officials representing different political parties. For example, archives in the future may focus on nominees to head federal agencies, members of Congress, Supreme Court nominees and so on.

Such experimentation builds on our experience with first prototyping and then developing the the Political TV Ad Archive. Our first collection of political TV ads, covering ads aired in Philadelphia during the 2014 mid-term elections, was built largely by hand. However, in preparation for the Political TV Ad Archive, we created a new open source tool, the Duplitron, that was able to identify ad airings by deploying audio fingerprinting. During the course of the project, we collected nearly 3,000 ads and documented more than 364,000 ad airings.

Use

Internet Archive’s Terms of Use require that users make use of the Internet Archive's collections at their own risk and ensure that such use is non-infringing and in accordance with all applicable laws. The Internet Archive does not advise as to the use or repurposing status of items in our collections.  It is the user’s responsibility to determine whether permission may be required for a given use of these materials, or whether such use is authorized by law.   The Trump Archive has been made available for use in journalism, research, teaching, private study and other public interest purposes.